157th Street is a simple Heins & LaFarge era IRT local station that opened on 12 November, 1904 just a couple of weeks after the subway's opening day. The station's features are similar to others down the line, notably 145 Street, 86 Street and 79 Street. Each stop has a similar terra cotta panels in the trim that have numerals of the station surrounded by two cornucopias (horns of plenty). Most of the original molding and name exists in the original portion of the station, the extension portion is tastefully similar to the original portion with mosaic 157s in the trim and the mosaic name tablets here look almost the same as the mosaic name tablets in the original portion of the station. On the uptown platform there is a brief area in the middle of the station of 1950s 157 tiling. The station has only two tracks as the line becomes two just north of 145 Street to make the transition to the two track deep bore tunnel underneath Washington Heights. There are staffed exits with token booths on either platform and each has two exits to the street. The uptown slide leads to two staircases at the SE corner of 157 St & Broadway. T